Google Summer of Code
Olly Betts
Basic Stats
- Run every year since 2005
- 2005: 400 students working with 40 orgs
- 2012: 2112 students, 180 orgs
Students
18+
Enrolled/accepted into an accredited college/uni
Plus a few legal restrictions
Time-line
- Orgs apply
- Students apply
- Coding (with mid-term evaluation)
- Mentor summit
- Time-line bad fit for New Zealand students
Google Code-In
- 2007 (as GHOP), 2011, 2012
- For ages 13-17
- Open to GSOC orgs
- November 26, 2012 to January 14, 2013
Personal Experience - 2008
- Mentored for SWIG - Cheryl Foil: Doxygen Comment Translation
- Richard Boulton - Haoyu Bai: Python 3 support
Personal Experience - 2009
- Co-admin for SWIG
- Mentored for SWIG - Miklos Vajna: PHP Directors
- Richard Boulton - Kosei Moriyama: Xapian Perl Bindings
- Mentoring Manual Sprint
Personal Experience - 2010
- SWIG didn't reapply
- Xapian applied, but not accepted
- Helped out with Debian, didn't mentor
Personal Experience - 2011
- Co-admin for Xapian
- Dai Youli: Chinese Segmentation
- Parth Gupta: Learning to Rank
- Nikita Smetanin: Spelling Correction Improvements
- Xiaona Han: Lua Bindings
Personal Experience - 2012
- Co-admin for Xapian
- Gaurav Arora: Language Modelling
- Marius Tibeica: Node.js Bindings
- Mihai Bivol: Dynamic Snippets
- Rishabh Mehrotra: Learning to Rank
- Sehaj Singh Kalra: QueryParser Improvements
- Uvarov Michael: Erlang Bindings
Personal Experience - 2013
The End
Questions welcome